Current Events > People are getting DQ'd from Pokemon Worlds for hacked pokemon

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Are Pokemon players like, idiots or something? "I cheated at this tournament and got DQ'd woe is me"? Or is cheating like accepted in the community because of something dumb Nintendo does? These dudes are way too casual about it.

Are Pokemon players like, idiots or something? "I cheated at this tournament and got DQ'd woe is me"? Or is cheating like accepted in the community because of something dumb Nintendo does? These dudes are way too casual about it.

What does it mean to be hacked/modified?

Means they created the pokemon they wanted with an input instead of spending hours praying to RNGesus while breedchaining it.

Means they created the pokemon they wanted with an input instead of spending hours praying to RNGesus while breedchaining it.

What does it mean to be hacked/modified?

So you can do well at a tournament because you happen to get good IVs? I feel like it should be the case that you just use the best version of a pokemon and the skill comes from the move set and strategy.

Means they created the pokemon they wanted with an input instead of spending hours praying to RNGesus while breedchaining it.

So you can do well at a tournament because you happen to get good IVs? I feel like it should be the case that you just use the best version of a pokemon and the skill comes from the move set and strategy.

That's not even needed with how easy SV made it to get a pokemon competitive ready

Means they created the pokemon they wanted with an input instead of spending hours praying to RNGesus while breedchaining it.

Having to manually search, find, grind, etc as well as spend money for every version of every game and side game that could have some variation of a pokemon that would give an advantage is pretty damn exhausting just to play the game at high level.

Having to manually search, find, grind, etc as well as spend money for every version of every game and side game that could have some variation of a pokemon that would give an advantage is pretty damn exhausting just to play the game at high level.

So you can do well at a tournament because you happen to get good IVs? I feel like it should be the case that you just use the best version of a pokemon and the skill comes from the move set and strategy.

Competitive Pokemon has always been uncompelling to me. I'm fine with this being a rule, but I think it comes with the inherent admission that arbitrary barriers need to be put in place to increase the "skill ceiling" because the game can't provide enough on its own.

That's dumb. I'd rather spend 5 minutes making a legal hack than like 2-3 days rnging some eggs for the right nature, IVs, egg moves, abilities, etc. Fuck that nonsense >_> I like having a life

Well I dont want spend hours to grind out the bullshit amount of BP needed for the items to do than then.

Well I dont want spend hours to grind out the bullshit amount of BP needed for the items to do than then.

That is why you wont win a tournament

I used to play competitive.

We kinda liken it to, "In a fighting game you don't have to spend literally hundreds of hours making your perfect fighter based on sometimes entirely random chance. Ryu is just Ryu"

Competition should be about strategy, not spending hundreds of hours to get the Pokemon stats to the point of being usable.

It's the opposite, actually. People are trying to cheat and generate Pokemon because they don't want to spend the time to create their own teams, even despite how easy it has become, lately. There is no skill ceiling involved. People just got used to being lazy due to previous games, and now they don't want to spent even the minimal amount of time in the recent games that made competitive Pokemon much, much easier to get into.

"I don't want to put in any effort at all" is lazy, plain and simple.

Having to manually search, find, grind, etc as well as spend money for every version of every game and side game that could have some variation of a pokemon that would give an advantage is pretty damn exhausting just to play the game at high level.

"The items are easy to get" if you don't mind grinding for them forever.

Skill issue with pkhex, not that hard to gen "legal" Pokemon.

So you believe that part of the strategic depth in Pokemon is going through the process of getting the Pokemon.

I mean it's fine if you think that but it doesn't reflect well on Pokemon as a competitive strategic game.

You could imagine if on the first day of a chess tournament you were required to carve out your pieces for the tournament from a block. Would that make the chess any more strategic or interesting? It would nominally increase the skill level (in that it adds something you have to be able to do) but that's not the same as making the game any deeper.

It's not lazy. It's dumb >_> I like having a life, bro

Means they created the pokemon they wanted with an input instead of spending hours praying to RNGesus while breedchaining it.

Sort of surprised that there's a way to detect which one is which.

That's dumb. I'd rather spend 5 minutes making a legal hack than like 2-3 days rnging some eggs for the right nature, IVs, egg moves, abilities, gender, etc. to all line up. Fuck that nonsense >_> I like having a life

You have to spend time getting good at ANY multiplayer game to become good at it, so this "I want to have a life" argument doesn't apply. Creating a Pokemon team takes much less time than getting good at any fighting or shooting game, for example.

Thats like saying making your arcade stick out of scratch is part of practicing your skill for Street Fighter VI lol.

Hacking your pokemon goes against the whole point of being a Pokemon trainer, does it not?

Fighting game players spend thousands upon thousands of hours perfecting their skills, but a Pokemon player can't spend a couple days legitimately building their team? That's just sad.

The issue is that people got so used to just genning Pokemon instantly and not putting in effort (in response to how long it took previously) that, now, even when it takes next to no time at all, they don't want to expend the effort because they've grown spoiled by genning things.

Thats like saying making your arcade stick out of scratch is part of practicing your skill for Street Fighter VI lol.